SUSPICIOUS STEW
1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.
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- 26 September 2026
- Java Edition
- 26.3, 1 of 1 row found
- Bedrock Edition
- 1.26.50.4, 0 of 1 matching
- Edition differences
- none, 1 rolled price aside
Suspicious Stew in villager trading
Every other bowl a Farmer sells fills your food bar and nothing else. Suspicious stew also carries a status effect, and which one you get depends entirely on the flower cooked into it, a detail set by the recipe rather than by the villager selling it. Buy it from the trade window instead of crafting it yourself and you get whatever effect the fixed flower behind this offer produces, not a choice between several.
A Farmer at expert sells 1 suspicious stew for 1 emerald, no allium hunting required on your end.
Villagers that sell Suspicious Stew(you give emeralds, get Suspicious Stew)
| Profession | Level | Price | Amount | Villager XP |  Java 26.3 |  Bedrock 1.26.50.4 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer | Expert |  | | 15same in Bedrock | verified | price computed in game | Random effect |
The 1 trade on this item was read out of the trade files Minecraft Java 26.3 ships in its own data, checked on against the item, both amounts and the use limit. Bedrock 1.26.50.4 is read as well, and where it disagrees the row says how. Which files, and what is not checked.
Odds, groups and price rules for Suspicious Stew
| Trade | Java odds | Bedrock odds | Bedrock group | Price multiplier | One cure takes off |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Emeraldfor1Suspicious StewFarmer, Expert | 100% | 100% | 1 | 0.05 | 6 items |
Your odds of finding Suspicious Stew
Expert draws from the Farmer's full pool at that tier, and 100% of expert farmers carry suspicious stew rather than one of his other foods. Expect roughly 1 qualifying farmers checked on average before this specific bowl turns up.
| Villager | Tier | Villagers with this offer | Rolls to see it | Most from one villager | After a cure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer | Expert | 100% (2 in 2)same in Bedrock | none, it is always there | 24 suspicious stew a day2 restocks a day | no change |
The chance is the draw size over the pool size in the game's own trade set file for that tier. The Bedrock line under it is the same sum on Bedrock's own table, which splits a tier into groups and draws out of each one separately, so the two editions often disagree. The day figure is the trade's use limit times the 2 restocks a villager is allowed per in-game day (Villager.allowedToRestock), so it is a ceiling and not an average: it assumes you are there for every restock. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.
Who trades Suspicious Stew, and at what price
One seller. A Farmer reaching expert, level 4 of five, sells 1 suspicious stew for 1 emerald, a rate fixed in the trade file rather than something that shifts between villagers.
Is trading Suspicious Stew worth it?
Suspicious Stew sells for as little as 1 emerald, from the Farmer at the Expert tier, and 3 of the other 7 cost less. The price is fixed rather than rolled, so a second Farmer will quote you exactly the same.
 | AppleApprentice | 1 | |
 | BreadNovice | 1 | |
 | Pumpkin PieApprentice | 1 | |
| Suspicious StewExpert | 1 | |
| CakeExpert | 3 | ||
 | CookieJourneyman | 3 | |
 | Golden CarrotMaster | 3 | |
 | Glistering Melon SliceMaster | 4 |
What 1 emerald costs in goods
The Farmer at its expert tier asks 1 emerald for suspicious stew. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:
| A full slot of | To | Emeralds | Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
 12 diamonds | expert Toolsmith | 12 | 12 suspicious stew |
 48 iron ingots | apprentice Toolsmith | 12 | 12 suspicious stew |
 48 pufferfish | master Fisherman | 12 | 12 suspicious stew |
 160 clay balls | novice Mason | 16 | 16 suspicious stew |
 224 string | journeyman Fletcher | 16 | 16 suspicious stew |
| 256 andesite | journeyman Mason | 16 | 16 suspicious stew |
 352 carrots | novice Farmer | 16 | 16 suspicious stew |
 288 flint | journeyman Weaponsmith | 12 | 12 suspicious stew |
a diamond against 24 flint for the same 1 emerald, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Mason at 37.5 real seconds of shelf, gathering not counted.
How Suspicious Stew trading works
The stew sits at expert, needing 150 banked trading experience from whatever the Farmer sold you on the way up, before the row opens on his table.
12 sales close it, and a restock brings back the identical stew offer rather than a different flower or a different price.
How long Suspicious Stew takes in real time
12 sales close the row, and it needs 2 real minutes idle before restocking, well inside the 20-minute villager day.
Wait through both refills and one farmer sells 24 suspicious stew for 24 emeralds a Minecraft day, the ceiling for a single villager.
Tips for trading Suspicious Stew
Buy the full slot while it is open: 12 suspicious stew for 12 emeralds before it locks and needs a restock.
Where the emeralds come from: the same Farmer pays an emerald per 4 melons.
Also on the Farmer's list: golden carrot, glistering melon slice, wheat, potato, carrot, and beetroot.
A bowl with an effect hidden in it
The flower that goes into a suspicious stew decides the effect it carries, and the stew keeps that effect through trading, so what you buy is whatever the seller put in. A dandelion gives saturation, a lily of the valley gives poison, and the rest sit between those two.
It does not stack, which is the practical catch: a pocket of stews takes a slot each. Eating one returns the bowl, so the container is never lost, and the effect lands the moment it is eaten rather than needing a brewing stand.
Making it yourself, and where it turns up
The recipe is a bowl, a red and a brown mushroom, and one flower, and the flower is the whole variable. Nothing else in the game hides its behaviour inside an ingredient this way.
It does not stack, so a pocket full of stews is a pocket full of slots. Eating one gives the bowl back, which is the small consolation.
Beyond the crafting grid, suspicious stew comes out of brushing suspicious sand and gravel at a dig site, and it turns up in the food a brown mooshroom will hand you if you milk one with a bowl after feeding it a flower.
Wheat
Potato
Beetroot